Menendez brothers to appear in Los Angeles court next week – NBC New York

Menendez brothers will appear virtually and be able to speak at the hearing scheduled for next Monday, and some members of the media and the public will be able to catch a glimpse of the brothers for the first time in decades.

Lyle and Erik Menendez, who are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for the 1989 shotgun killings of their parents in Beverly Hills, will attend a status hearing Monday morning, held remotely from their families. San Diego prison.

The status conference on Monday will discuss the stage of the case. annoying advice It was made by outgoing District Attorney George Gascón.

“Sometimes I call it cleansing,” said Mark Geragos, the brothers’ attorney, adding that the parties involved would confirm or change the resentencing hearing date, which was originally set for Dec. 11 because Gascón did not know it at the time. would win re-election. “(We will discuss) ‘Are we going to meet on the 11th? Do we have enough time? How many witnesses will decide?’”

While the brothers have the right to appear in the Van Nuys courtroom Monday morning, Geragos said they will attend the hearing online.

“My office sent out the forms so they wouldn’t have to drag it here (to L.A. County) at taxpayer expense,” the defense attorney explained.

Despite renewed interest and excitement in the sensational story of the siblings who killed their parents with a shotgun while Jose and Kitty Menendez were watching television in their Beverly Hills mansion in the summer of 1989, the world would not see or hear about the Menendez siblings, thanks largely to television programs and documentaries. Only a lucky few will make it.

Some media members and public lottery winners will witness what Lyle and Erik Menendez, now in their 50s, look and sound like.

Sixteen members of the public will be able to attend the hearing in person, as the Los Angeles County Superior Court will hold a public raffle at the West Van Nuys Courthouse on Monday from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. after lottery tickets are distributed between 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. I

There will be no cameras in the courtroom, but drawing artists will present drawings of the hearing on Monday.

The Menendez brothers will have a second hearing next Tuesday as prosecutors are expected to respond in front of the judge to a habea request filed by their defense attorneys in 2023.

The court set a deadline for the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office to respond to a 2023 petition for a writ of habeas corpus arguing that the brothers’ convictions and sentences were unconstitutional in light of newly revealed evidence. The brothers were victims of childhood sexual abuse by their father, Jose Menendez.

Geragos, who had previously hoped to bring back the brothers who were released by Thanksgiving, said his goal now is to bring them home by Christmas, adding that the brothers were “cautiously optimistic” about their possible release.

“The attitude is that this is a whirlwind of emotions,” Geragos said.

When Lyle Menenedez spoke to NBC Los Angeles in a prison interview in 2017, he said he tried not to imagine his life outside of prison.

“I think it would be a little torture to dwell on this,” Menendez’s older brother said, adding that he and his brother Erik were trying to stay healthy and keep their morale up. “For me, this is not the form of hope. To me, hope is keeping one’s spirit strong. To believe that his life was not a failure because it was marked by so much tragedy.”